Building a Legend: The 'Skinny' on the Slender Man

This paper explores folklorist Richard Dorson's distinction between folklore and 'fakelore'—that is, folklore-like material that has been created deliberately and mass-disseminated, often for monetary or ideological purposes. Framed by 'the Slender Man,' a legend-like figure that has been circulating since 2009, the author demonstrates that the distinction between folklore and fakelore is not as clear-cut as it once was, and argues that the digital age may require a shift in folklore terminology

The grounds for administrative expulsion

The grounds for administrative expulsion Abstract This thesis focuses on an important instrument of migration policy, which is administrative expulsion, or more precisely the grounds for which a decision on administrative expulsion may be issued to a foreign national. The Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals exhaustively covers the individual grounds for administrative expulsion, but their content is not always clear at first glance. Although administrative expulsion is a specific instrument of immigration control, and not a tool for punishing the foreign national for violation of the established obligations, it has a tangible impact on the foreign national's life. The main purpose of this thesis is to define and characterize the individual facts of the grounds for administrative expulsion and to organize them according to common features systematically. For these purposes, it is important to examine the individual facts using the terminology of the doctrine of criminal law i.e., in particular the definition of the typical features of the facts - object, objective aspect, subject and subjective aspect. The characterisation should reflect the meaning and origin of the legal regulation of the specific facts, the identification of the essential features of the undesirable conduct of the foreign national...Důvody správního vyhoštění Abstrakt Tato práce se zaměřuje na významný instrument migrační politiky, kterým je správní vyhoštění, respektive jednotlivé důvody, pro které může být rozhodnutí o správním vyhoštění cizinci vydáno. Zákon o pobytu cizinců vyčerpávajícím způsobem pokrývá jednotlivé skutkové podstaty důvodů správního vyhoštění, nicméně jejich obsah není vždy na první pohled zcela jasný. Přestože je správní vyhoštění specifickým nástrojem kontroly v oblasti přistěhovalectví, nikoli nástrojem k trestání cizince za porušení stanovených povinností, ve svém důsledku citelně zasahuje do života cizince. Hlavním účelem této diplomové práce je vymezit a charakterizovat jednotlivé skutkové podstaty důvodů správního vyhoštění a systematicky je uspořádat podle společných znaků. Pro tyto účely je významné zkoumat jednotlivé skutkové podstaty za použití terminologie nauky trestního práva o trestném činu, tedy zejména vymezení typových znaků skutkové podstaty - objektu, objektivní stránky, subjektu a subjektivní stránky. Charakteristika by měla reflektovat smysl a původ právní úpravy konkrétní skutkové podstaty, určení základních znaků nežádoucího chování cizince, které jsou nutné pro naplnění skutkové podstaty, jakož i pojmů, které jsou definiční pro skutkovou podstatu. V případě většiny skutkových podstat je...Katedra správního práva a správní vědyDepartment of Administrative Law and Administrative ScienceFaculty of LawPrávnická fakult

Multi-Component Evaluation to Minimize the Spread of Aquatic Invasive Seaweeds, Harmful Algal Bloom Microalgae, and Invertebrates via the Live Bait Vector in Long Island Sound

The goal of the project was to protect guard Long Island Sound from the introduction of non-native organisms that may be imported via fishing bait worms and the seaweed packing material known as wormweed (Ascophyllum nodosum). The project examined bait for non-native invertebrate animals, macroalgae (also known as seaweeds), and harmful, toxin-producing microalgae. Bait was purchased from retail bait shops at locations ranging from northeastern Long Island Sound along the Connecticut shoreline to the southwestern part of the Sound in Long Island. Using a combination of visual and microscopic inspection, and sophisticated molecular biological techniques to detect the presence of microalgal cells, the study questioned whether (i) non-native organisms were being imported via bait worms, and if so whether; (ii) non-native organisms vary according to purchase location, or; (iii) time of year. Overall, 14 species of macroalgae, two species of harmful microalgae (Alexandrium fundyense, and Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries), and 23 different categories of invertebrate animals were discovered among the wormweed. Only one of the microalgal species was not native to Long Island Sound. Overall, location (eastern vs. western, northern vs. southern Long Island Sound) did not affect the number of algal or invertebrate species. Temperature did affect algal diversity and abundance, however, both in post-collection incubation (5° \u3c 15° = 25°) and seasonally (summer produced highest numbers). Invertebrates were most abundant in summer as well. The Gulf of Maine now harbors a diverse suite of non-native organisms. These may be exported to other areas of the U.S. via national bait wholesalers and cause ecological harm to the receiving ecosystem. In addition to potential ecological impacts associated with the import of non-native organisms, economic harm is also possible. For example, commercial shellfishing beds may be closed when harmful microalgae bloom in coastal waters. With ca. 470 retail bait shops in NY and CT, the chances of introduction of harmful non-natives is not trivial. For example, in our 18 month study of four locations, we discovered the harmful non-native microalga Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries in 58% of our samples

Reconstructing Home: Abolition Democracy, the City, and Black Feminist Political Thought Revisited

This study extends W.E.B. Du Bois’s theory of abolition democracy by exploring the political thought of Black women in and around the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1850 and 1880. As the historical site of the nation’s founding, the U.S. abolitionist movement, and the largest concentration of Blacks in the United States at the end of the 19th century, Philadelphia is central to the American democratic imaginary, yet Black women’s contributions to the city, the nation, and that imaginary, even by those exploring black political thought, remain largely unexplored. By returning to how Sarah Mapps Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fanny Jackson Coppin, and Gertrude Bustill Mossell negotiated and transgressed the newly drawn boundaries of the expanding city, the “splendid failure of Reconstruction” that Du Bois documented in Black Reconstruction takes on gendered and urban dimensions. Attending to these Black women as they adapted to global trends of enclosure, industrialization, and urbanization, I find that the political concept of fugitivity that spurned the democratic movement for the abolition of slavery retains theoretical significance beyond the antebellum period. Having a history in Black political thought, fugitivity is a paradigm through which people in their everyday practices escape the capitalist impulse to confine, detain, and commodify their existence as both capital and labor. Black women as political thinkers complicate the spatialized reality and romantic idea of “home” that underpinned both the hunting and freeing of fugitives in the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War. Their work raises the following question: what does democracy mean when the nation is built from and by those deemed “homeless”

New England Seaweed Culture Handbook

A new 92-page handbook published by Connecticut Sea Grant provides instruction on nursery culture for four economically and ecologically valuable seaweeds. The volume builds on decades of research on the physiological and culture techniques led by Dr. Charles Yarish at UConn and Dr. Christopher Neefus, U. of New Hampshire

Culture of Sargassum in Korea: Techniques and Potential for Culture in the U.S.

In an effort to develop suitable culture techniques for macroalgae in the Northeast, this guide reviews the current knowledge of Sargassum biology and reports on culture techniques learned during a research exchange between the United States (NOAA Sea Grant) and South Korea (National Fisheries Research and Development Institute)